Ansible Setup for new OSX

Provision and set up a new Mac computer using ansible.

Manual steps

• Create ssh key for github
• Remap capslock to ctrl.

Setup

Run the commands:

make install

This will install prerequisites (Xcode CLI tools, Rosetta on Apple Silicon), fetch Ansible dependencies, and run the playbook. Specific tasks can be run with --tags:

uv run ansible-playbook osx_defaults.yml --tags osx --ask-become-pass

Links

• MacOS setup automation using a bootstrap script and Ansible
• geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook
• TalkingQuickly/ansible-osx-setup